Version Control with Git: Powerful Tools and Techniques for Collaborative Software Development

Distributed source control has become the new trend in project management, particularly on open source projects, and Git is the leading tool in this area. Initially created to manage the distributed development of the Linux kernel, Git is now the revision control system favoured by open source software developers. This practical and thorough book explains how to track, branch, merge, and manage code revisions using Git. Git is sleek and low-overhead, but permits a virtually infinite variety of methods for development and collaboration. The flexibility of Git, however, means that users can misunderstand the proper way to use it or what the implications are of their updates and commits. This book, written by leading proponents of Git with extensive experience, examines real-world development environments and shows precisely how to use Git in each.